Russian ambassador to Turkey dead: Andrey Karlov dies after being shot in Ankara

Andrey Karlov was shot in the back as he made a speech at a photo exhibit in the Turkish capital.

Mr. Karlov was several minutes into a speech at the embassy-sponsored exhibition when a man wearing a suit and tie shouted “Allahu akbar” and fired at least eight shots, according to an AP photographer in the audience.

“Today in Ankara as a result of an attack, the ambassador of the Russian Federation to Turkey, Andrey Gennadyevich Karlov, received a wound from which he died,” foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

“We regard this as a terrorist act.”

Mr. Karlov was 62 and joined the diplomatic service in 1976. He served as Russia’s ambassador to Pyongyang in 2001-2006 and later worked as the chief of the Foreign Ministry’s consular department.

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